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Physical Ergonomics
Biomechanics, manual handling, task analysis, workplace design and musculoskeletal risk.
Explore practice ↗Human Factors & Ergonomics Consultancy
Design work
around people.
We help organisations reduce human-system risk, strengthen performance and design better workplaces, technologies and ways of working — across physical, cognitive, psychosocial and digital Human Factors & Ergonomics.
Human work, observed in context.
Design decisions, grounded in evidence.
Where we add value
Human factors support for complex work.
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Reduce physical strain and musculoskeletal risk
Physical ergonomics
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Improve workload, attention and decision reliability
Cognitive ergonomics
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Address psychosocial hazards through better work design
Organisational HFE
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Make systems, interfaces and workflows easier to use
UX / human-system design
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Introduce AI and automation with effective human oversight
Human-AI interaction
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Understand and reduce the conditions behind human error
Human reliability & investigation
The human advantage.The business impact.
ScopePhysical • Cognitive • Organisational • Digital
Engagement scopeWorkplaces • Systems • Organisations
DeliveryAssessment → Design → Implementation
Full-spectrum HFE
Expertise across the whole work system.
The issues that affect people at work rarely sit in one discipline. We bring together physical, cognitive, organisational and digital HFE to understand the interactions that shape safety, usability, wellbeing and performance.
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Cognitive Ergonomics
Workload, attention, information, decision-making, fatigue, alarms and human reliability.
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Organisational & Psychosocial
Work design, psychosocial hazards, fatigue, teamwork, roles, change and sustainable performance.
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Digital & Human-System Design
HFE design, UX/UI, usability, automation, human-AI interaction and system validation.
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Evidence translated
into practical change.
We support organisations where human performance matters to the outcome — from redesigning demanding work to improving operator interfaces, introducing new technology and strengthening organisation-wide ergonomics programmes.
Redesigning a high-demand production task
Observation, task decomposition and ergonomic analysis used to identify where workstation geometry, reach, work sequence and tools were creating avoidable physical demand.
Outputs
See the engagement ↗Prioritised redesign options • implementation roadmap • validation criteria
Screening ergonomics across complex technical work
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Improving information, workload and operator decision support
See the engagement ↗Our Human Work System
Better decisions begin
with the whole system.
Human performance is shaped by more than the individual. Our framework examines five connected elements — people, task, technology, organisation and environment — to reveal where design decisions can create safer, clearer and more sustainable work.
See our approach ↗WORK
SYSTEM
SYSTEM
People
Capability, diversity, experience, needs, limitations, motivation and wellbeing.
Senior HFE consultancy
Independent.
Scientific.
Practical.
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We study real work.
We observe the actual task, constraints, variation and workarounds — not only the written procedure.
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We connect evidence to design.
Assessment is useful only when it leads to better tools, tasks, interfaces, environments or organisational choices.
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We work across disciplines.
HFE issues often cross ergonomics, occupational health, engineering, safety, HR, operations and design.
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We understand operating context.
Recommendations are shaped around the workforce, technology, standards, constraints and implementation realities of each organisation.
Context matters
Global discipline.
Context-specific judgement.
Human Factors & Ergonomics only works when it fits the environment in which people actually work. Our home base gives us deep familiarity with Singapore workplace expectations, while every engagement is shaped around the regulatory, cultural, operational and workforce context of the client and project location.
Senior practitioners
Experience that stays close to the work.
Complex HFE work benefits from experienced practitioners who can move between the worksite, the evidence and the boardroom. Our senior team stays close to the engagement and focused on recommendations that can actually be implemented.
Meet the practice ↗Specialist practiceInstitute of Ergonomics and Hygiene
ZCZephan ChanDirector, IEH • RIH(SG), GradIOSH
PHPhoebe Huang XianHead of Ergonomics, IEH
Supported by an interdisciplinary practice spanning ergonomics, occupational hygiene, workplace safety and professional training.
HFE perspectives
Thinking that strengthens
design decisions.
Work Design
Psychosocial hazards are not only a wellbeing issue. They are a work-design issue.
Why role clarity, workload, control, support and organisational change belong inside an HFE conversation.
Human-AIAI changes the task — and therefore changes the human factors risk.
Automation can reduce demand while introducing new forms of monitoring, reliance, cognitive load and accountability.
ErgonomicsBeyond RULA and REBA: assessment scores are a starting point, not the intervention.
The value of an assessment is the quality of the redesign decisions it supports.
Work with Ergonomics.sg
Strengthen the human side
of your system.
Whether you are reducing risk, redesigning work, introducing technology or investigating performance concerns, we provide senior HFE support from assessment through implementation.
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